

Most worrying though was the fact that he seems to have gone out without his wallet and keys. There's a stong smell of bleach and Ben doesn't seem to have any towels. Ben had taught his sister to pick locks, so it wasn't long before she was in the apartment. The man going into the grounds wasn't particularly careful about hiding the security code, so getting into the building wasn't difficult.

Jess might be vulnerable but she's learned quite a few skills in her twenty-eight years. She's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Ben. She'd phoned Ben and got the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her that the apartment was on the third floor. It wasn't likely that the police would be on to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside her. She'd come across from London on Eurostar, courtesy of the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till in the Copacabana Bar in Brighton.

It was a Friday and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her half-brother's flat in Paris. Summary: The location's changed from her previous two thrillers but the skill is all there.
